Uma Patel

Uma Patel is a political journalist in ABC’s Parliament House Bureau, her first day in the office was on the night of the 2016 election. She returned to Canberra after starting Sky News Australia’s first foreign bureau in New Zealand in 2015. Uma studied at ANU and graduated with a Bachelor of Law and a Bachelor of Psychology.

The "patchwork" of different renewable energy targets from the states and territories will "create widespread power system security problems", according to Danny Price, a respected expert who helped design Australia's national energy market rules.

Crossbench senator David Leyonhjelm says people who receive pension payments should not be proud because it shows they are poor, a day after the Government tightened the assets test for 300,000 older Australians.

The sails of the Sydney Opera House were turned green to promote the trouble-plagued 2016 census at a cost of $14,850 internal documents reveal, a "major public relations opportunity" that did not include any information about the national survey.

The Federal Government insists Australia can still meet its climate change targets after a report reveals greenhouse gas emissions rose in the year to June, as the Australian Conservation Foundation warns the country is "not on track" to meet 2030 commitments.

The Federal Opposition criticises the Coalition for blocking a refugee settlement deal with Malaysia when Julia Gillard was prime minister, as reports emerge Malcolm Turnbull is about to sign a deal with the United States.